This year's Budget can't make Britain any promises

摘要

Every year around Budget time, Construction News reporters are inundated with press-released pleas from construction trade bodies, companies and leaders. Reduce VAT rates for home repairs and improvements, they say. Fix, moderate or scrap the Community Infrastructure Levy. Incentivise energy efficiency. But most of all, the industry begs the chancellor to inject money into our homes and infrastructure. It's around this time you start to remember why you loathe the phrase 'the devil will be in the detail'. But this year, the press release missives are a little thin on the ground ahead of Monday's Budget statement.